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Excerpted from Baking: From My Home to Yours. Copyright 2006 by Dorie Greenspan.

1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 stick plus 3 tablespoons (11 tablespoons) unsalted butter, at room temperature
2/3 cup (packed) light brown sugar
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon fleur de sel or 1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
5 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped into chips, or a generous 3/4 cup
store-bought mini chocolate chips

1. Sift the flour, cocoa and baking soda together.

2. Working with a stand mixer, preferably fitted with a paddle attachment, or
with a hand mixer in a large bowl, beat the butter on medium speed until soft
and creamy. Add both sugars, the salt and vanilla extract and beat for 2 minutes
more.

3. Turn off the mixer. Pour in the dry ingredients, drape a kitchen towel over
the stand mixer to protect yourself and your kitchen from flying flour and pulse
the mixer at low speed about 5 times, a second or two each time. Take a peek -
if there is still a lot of flour on the surface of the dough, pulse a couple of
times more; if not, remove the towel. Continuing at low speed, mix for about 30
seconds more, just until the flour disappears into the dough - for the best
texture, work the dough as little as possible once the flour is added, and don't
be concerned if the dough looks a little crumbly. Toss in the chocolate pieces
and mix only to incorporate.

4. Turn the dough out onto a work surface, gather it together and divide it in
half. Working with one half at a time, shape the dough into logs that are 1 1/2
inches in diameter. Wrap the logs in plastic wrap and refrigerate them for at
least 3 hours. (The dough can be refrigerated for up to 3 days or frozen for up
to 2 months. If you've frozen the dough, you needn't defrost it before baking -
just slice the logs into cookies and bake the cookies 1 minute longer.)

Getting Ready to Bake:

5. Center a rack in the oven and preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Line two
baking sheets with parchment or silicone mats.

6. Using a sharp thin knife, slice the logs into rounds that are 1/2 inch thick.
(The rounds are likely to crack as you're cutting them - don't be concerned,
just squeeze the bits back onto each cookie.) Arrange the rounds on the baking
sheets, leaving about 1 inch between them.

7. Bake the cookies one sheet at a time for 12 minutes - they won't look done,
nor will they be firm, but that's just the way they should be.

Transfer the baking sheet to a cooling rack and let the cookies rest until they
are only just warm, at which point you can serve them or let them reach room
temperature.

Makes about 36 cookies

Take care and know that you are loved,

Lana and Rowland